Stephen Lewis and interior designer, Joanna Wood founded textile and wallpaper company Lewis and Wood in 1993. Many of Lewis and Woods fabric and wallpaper collections focus on botanical illustrations.
Having looked at designers who have a stylistic and abstract approach to natural forms, this post concerns itself with a more realistic approach. Below are a number of Lewis and Wood designs, each of which I have analysed.
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| ADAMS EDEN |
This design titled Adams Eden has a watercolour effect print. Warm greens and browns make up the main colour palette, and the print is a perfect example of a Botanical illustration. Below is an example of how this fabric has been used to cover a chair, and what is interesting about this fabric, is that the lack of repetitive pattern. This means that the branches and flowers all fall in different directions, adding to the realistic impression, and echoing the imperfections of nature.
This design has also been printed as a wallpaper as shown below.
Although it is possible to see a pattern repeat here it is a half drop repeat which gives the pattern more freedom. The pattern still looks untamed and represents the randomness of nature's natural growth.
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| CHINA ROSE |
This is a more this looks like more of a pen and ink design, but still a recognisable representation. This design shown below as curtains and a wallpaper looks more old fashioned than the previous design, and is not one of my favourites from the collection.
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| INDIENNE |
Although floral wallpaper can be seen as old fashioned, the colour palette modernises this design. The application of this design shown below resembles the arts and crafts movement, and its use of matching wallpaper and curtains. I prefer the design printed on curtains, as it is quite a busy and overpowering design on a wall.
The work of Lewis and Wood is primarily floral, and so does not look much into other forms and aspects of nature. It is however a possible company that I will use in my design project, and so this research has been useful. However, to gain more insight into how nature can be used in an interior, I have decided to further my research into this. This will be shown in subsequent posts.
Post Bibliography
Lewis and Wood. (n.d.) Fabrics. [Online] Available from: http://www.lewisandwood.co.uk/products/category/fabrics [Accessed: 22nd October 2011]
